Design of impulse radio UWB transmitter with improved range performance using PPM signals

There are several practical challenges in designing an ultra wideband (UWB) device for communication. From the physical layer signaling perspective it is important to avoid the strong peaks in the transmitted signal to fully exploit the regulatory bodies power constraint requirements. This will result in increased range performance for the sensors. Design of the transmit impulse radio (IR) UWB signals under the practical constraints of hardware and regulatory body is a critical optimization issue in the UWB system design. In this paper, we propose a IR-UWB signaling, which is a variant of pulse position modulation (PPM) method and achieves an increased range performance under the practical constraints of hardware and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations.